Guy Spier
| Guy Selmar Spier | |
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| Born |
February 4, 1966 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
| Residence | Zurich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | South African, Israeli, German |
| Education | City of London Freemen's School, Ashtead, Surrey |
| Alma mater |
Oxford University Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Investor, Aquamarine Fund, Author |
Guy Spier (born February 4, 1966) is a Zurich-based investor and author of a book on investing entitled The Education of a Value Investor. He is well known for bidding US$650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in June 2007. In 2009, he was featured in "the Checklist Manifesto", by Atul Gawande regarding his use of checklists as part of his investment process.
Spier was educated in England at the City of London Freemen's School, followed by Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, from which he gained a First Class degree in PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics). The former British Prime Minister David Cameron was among his contemporaries at Brasenose. Spier completed his MBA at the Harvard Business School, class of 1993 with Mark Pincus, Chris Hohn and Sherry Coutu.
From 1988 - 1990, Spier worked with David Pitt-Watson at Braxton Associates, which later became Deloitte Consulting. In 1991, he was an intern at the European Commission in Brussels.
Spier manages the Aquamarine Fund, an investment partnership inspired by, and styled after Warren Buffett's 1950s investment partnerships. He is also an occasional financial commentator in the media.
Spier follows closely Warren Buffett's principles on Value Investing and capital allocation. However, he also admits that Value Investing has changed over time, as the popularity of style means that generally less opportunities become available to investors. Ideas that will work would still be around, but the successful value investor of today has to look further and sometimes think outside the box.
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